"Kia ora. This is my earthquake story". Multiple applications of a sociolinguistic corpus

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This paper demonstrates how spoken data, collected using sociolinguistic methods, can have
multiple applications. It can be a resource for tackling real-world problems, it can be a platform for
community engagement and it can function as a source of data for academic research (both linguistic
and non-linguistic research). The spoken data we describe is a new corpus of monologues called the
UC QuakeBox corpus. First, we introduce and demonstrate the QuakeBox corpus, and outline some
of the rewards and challenges associated with collecting stories in a manner that was purposefully
and saliently in the public eye. Next, we focus on applications of the QuakeBox corpus by exploring
case studies which are utilising data from the corpus for non-linguistic work. We situate this work
within the wider field of applied sociolinguistics.